Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1918 — TO FRIENDS OF DEMOCRAT [ARTICLE]

TO FRIENDS OF DEMOCRAT

Instruct your attorneys t > bring all legal notices in which you are interested and will have the paying to do, to The Democrat, and thereby save money and do ua a favor that will be duly appreciated. All notices of apportionment—of administrator, executor or guardian; survey, sale of real estate, ditch or road petitions, notices of non-residence, etc., the clients themselves control, and your attorneys will take them to the paper you desire, for publication, if you so direct them; while, if you fail to do so, they will give them, where it suits their pleasure most and where you may least expect or desire it. So,, please bear this in mind when you have any of these notices to have published.

According to a British scientist, weight for weight, macaroni is as valuable a flesh-building food as beef or mutton. There are 175,<100,000 cells In the lungs, and, spread out, they would cover a surface thirty times greater than the human body, A powerful electric submarine camera that a New York man has invented is expected to get as much information about sunken vessels in a short time as it would take experienced divers days to gather. The Ma/uretayla of the Cunard line holds the record for the Atlantic passage, having made the trip from Queenstown to New York on September 11-15, 1910, in four days, ten hours and forty-one minutes. A British army lieutenant, who was killed in and had been a lawyer in civil life, left $1,500 to King George, “humbly requesting his majesty to apply the sama to the reduction of the national debt.”

A striking Illustration of the advance in the value of pearls was afforded at a recent auction sale in London. A necklace of fifty-two pearls which was bought in 1863 at a London jeweler’s for $550, was sold for $7,500. H Imports to the United States from all sources for the month of September, 1918, aggregated in value $262,257,387, an increase of more than $26,000,000 as compared with the same month of 1917. For the nine months ending yvith September the gain was 40,000,00. ’